Kaitlyn Morison

Katana is 21st-century script typeface that thrives with energy. Its stylised letterforms feature a strong slant: about 40°, or more than twice the amount of slant found in a typical italic font.

Katanas angularity expresses an aura that combines the small refined details of calligraphy with the vibrancy of large-format graffiti lettering.

Unusual for a script typeface, Katana has multiple weights available; there are five in the family, and they range from Light through Bold.

As one shuffles from each weight to the next, the level of stroke contrast increases.

While Katanas Light weight is monolinear, the Bold weight has extremely hight contrast between its thick and thin strokes, which dials up the fonts dynamic-feeling even more.

The heavier weights clearly look like their letterforms have been written with broad pens or brushes, and the heaviest font looks like a techno-style design crossed with the work of a traditional sign-painter.

Each member of the Katana family has lining figures as its fonts default numeral style, but there are also oldstyle figures available through an OpenType feature.

Plus, each font includes about 26 alternate glyphs, substituted into the text whenever the contextual alternates feature is active.

Katana is a great addition to an editorial designers toolkit. It comes from Parimal Parmar, a designer in Ahmedabad/India.

Neptune is a large family of geometric sans serif fonts. Its designer Gaetan Baehr has created 12 styles: six different weights, ranging from Extralight to Extrabold.

Each has an upright and an oblique font on offer. Letters in all of Neptunes weights are drawn with virtually mono-linear strokes. Its lowercase letters have a tall x-height, but still leave enough room for the fonts diacritical marks.

These are actually quite large; theyll always be noticed, even in small sizes.

Neptunes a and g both have single-storey forms. The dots on the i, j, and diacritics are round, as are the punctuation marks, too. Despite being a geometric sans, Neptune features letters that break away somewhat from what previous fonts in that style have offered.

The Qs tail has been simplified into a short, vertical stroke. The strokes on both the S and the s terminate in vertical cuts, instead of having horizontal or diagonal terminals.

The lowercase k and t each have traits that come from our alphabets handwritten origins.

These details give text set in Neptune a different feeling from other geometric sans serifs.

Neptune is an excellent choice for both corporate design and editorial design projects, both because of its range of weights as well as its legibility in text.

Bonny is a family of decorative serif fonts, designed for display typography. The letterforms are very condensed. They also contain a lot of stroke-contrast. Bonnys thin strokes often terminate in flourishes; these flourishes pair well with the typefaces serifs, which are both thin and short.

Bonnys uppercase letters are very top-heavy; the upper halves of B, E, F, H, K, M, R, S, and X are so large that they look almost like caricatures.

This feature is carried over the some of the lowercase letters, too. For example, Bonnys a, c, f, g, k, r, s, t, y, and z are all extravagant and lovely.

The v and w have calligraphic flourishes on their right-hand sides; similar expressions appear throughout rest of the the typeface, too.

Each font includes 13 f-ligatures. An alternate j may be automatically substituted into text, via the Contextual Alternates feature, preventing collisions with glyphs coming before it.

The fonts numerals are oldstyle figures, which match the rhythm of the lowercase letters.

From the Polish type designer Barbara Bigosinska, Bonny is an excellent choice for use on greeting cards and in packaging design.

Its fonts should be set in large point sizes, so that its details have enough space to really shine.

Tara is a family of serif fonts designed for immersive reading. Its design considers a tall x-height, balanced with high contrast letter-forms and wedge-shaped serifs that propose an elegant character functional at reading sizes.

The axis of stress running through the letters is almost vertical; however, Tara is inspired by oldstyle typefaces, characterized by their use of diagonal axes.

The family includes four weights that range from Regular through Bold with matching italics.

Many of Taras lowercase letters retain calligraphic traces in their details, such as the terminal on the upright lowercase a and the ear of the g.

The italics contain a few dozen swash alternates, for use in headlines, titles as well as logo designs.

All of the fonts include small caps, 14 f-ligatures, and case-sensitive punctuation.

The default numeral style is set at proportional oldstyle figures with tabular and lining figures available as OpenType alternates.

A full-range of numerators and denominators for fraction-typesetting has been included for its compatibility with a widespread range of contents.

With letter-forms quite comfortable to read, Taras language support covers an extended Latin character-set and is an excellent choice for editorial projects across print media.

Tara was designed by Tania Alvarez Zaldivar, a type and graphic designer from Mexico, and a graduate of the Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in The Hague.

Rion is a high-contrast modern, or Didone-style font family, with a calligraphic flourish. It is intended for typesetting headlines in editorial design settings, as well as signage, the larger texts in exhibition graphics, or any other place where you need big, elegant-looking type.

Rion takes inspiration both from straight-axis nineteenth century typefaces and pointed-pen calligraphy.

Its letterforms contain a high degree of stroke-contrast; this gives them a look of sophistication.

The family includes six weights, ranging in style from Light through Black. Each weight has both an upright font and an italic on offer. The fonts default numerals are proportionally-spaced oldstyle figures. Lining figures are also available, via an OpenType feature. Rions characters are all a bit condensed; this narrow feeling is especially present in the fonts uppercase letters.

The ascenders of the lowercase letters rise slightly above the tops of the capitals.

In the upright fonts, the a and the g are double-storied. In the italics, they are single-storied. Each font includes small caps, and 13 f-ligatures, too. Special characters in the fonts such as the hashtag and the @-symbol, as well several punctuation marks and mathematical glyphs are drawn with thin, monolinear hairline strokes, allowing them to disappear into the background somewhat, and let the real alphabetic characters shine more prominently.

Rion is the work of Barbara Bigosinska, a Polish type designer living in the Netherlands, who is a graduate of the MA Type & Media programme at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague.

Demo is a flat-sided, technoid-style sans serif family. It has ten fonts on offer; thats five different weights, each with a companion italic.

The italics are really obliques, differentiating themselves from texts set with the upright fonts by their slant.

However, rather than calling the italic fonts slanted versions of Demos upright fonts, we should rather say that Demos upright fonts are straightened-up italics.

Much of the letter construction in the Demo typeface is actually italic, meaning that it is inspired by handwriting.

And this despite its being a sans serif with an almost futuristic appearance.

The a and g in Demo are both single-storey, but the combination of curves and corners in these two letters is right out of a 16th-century Italian chancery.

The other notable feature of Demo is the strong mono-linearity present in all ten of the fonts.

Demos letters do not include any visible stroke contrast: Demos lowercase has a very tall x-height, and the capital letters are compact (the lowercases ascender strokes rise above the caps somewhat).

Demo does not need to be restricted to use in display sizes only; its lighter weights may be used to set shorter passages of body copy, too.

Demo was designed by Aarya Purohit and the Indian Type Foundry (ITF).

Interlink is a single-weight, all-caps stencil typeface designed by the French designer Julie Soudanne.

Its forms are monolinear, and they have the feeling of a contemporary-style sans serif.

Interlinks letters are nice and geometric, but they are not mono-width. Nevertheless, Soudanne constructed many of the characters so that they feel like they might be equally wide, even though they are not.

Aside from the stencil-optic, Interlinks best feature is its unique series of 68 ligatures.

This large set includes both two-letter and three-letter ligatures. The OpenType Ligatures feature is so important to this design that the letters ability to link-up to each other is referenced in the typefaces very name: Interlink is, basically, a palette of inter-linking letters for designers to use in display sizes.

Interlink may be used very well in headlines, or for logo design. The typeface may be paired with virtually any kind of body text fonts, be these serif or sans.